we have seen strange things today

 

Luk 5:24  But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. 

Luk 5:25  And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 

Luk 5:26  And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day. 

Jesus heals the paralyzed man right in front of them, He says your sins are forgiven, but He heals physically right there they see with their own eyes yet they do not believe the power they just saw manifested.

The healed man takes the bed He was just laying on, that his friends carried him in and took apart a roof (that they were now going to have to fix) to get him to Jesus while on a bed and he was healed.

Yet this man did not stand and just quietly walk out. No this man left this house Glorifying God! He left the presence of the savior a changed man, not just in the physical, no he walked away singing and Glorifying the God that changed his life.

They were all amazed and glorified God. They were filled with fear, and they knew they saw something different on this day than what they were used to.

This is a marked difference for the Scribes and the Pharisees. Why?

They are glorifying God because of the miracle, because of the power they personally just saw but just a few minutes later they change their tune.

It is amazing how fast people can turn on you. They see miracles never done before in history right in front of their eyes and what do they do? The glorify God. Rightfully so.

Yet now in just a few verses, the time frame is the very same day this happens.

Luk 5:30  But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 

This is where Jesus, in their eyes, went wrong. He decided to go out and be amongst the little people. Then they see His disciples not washing their hands before eating and now they are down right against Him.

When He tells you that the world will not like you, when they turn on you faster than the wind blows He can commiserate for they just did the same thing to Him. When they didn’t like His message all of a sudden, He is of Beelzebub for He didn’t make His disciples wash. OH NO!

When Jesus broke their traditions, their customs they just went nuts. When He went against their favorite things they lost their minds. They did not want to hear His message they wanted to play church.

Oh church even today we do this!

Jesus came in a manner they were not accustomed to. They saw His power, they saw the lives changed, yet because He was not of them they decided to ruin Him.

The funny part? He wasn’t in their church, He wasn’t in the Temple, He was in someone’s house.  He was not going out of His way to irritate them, or humiliate them, He was trying to reach the people for God. They hated Him for it.